Peter Sykes (June 17, 1939 – March 1, 2006) was an Australian television and film director who worked primarily in the United Kingdom.
"[2] He was born in Melbourne and worked as a dancer, then as an assistant director on documentaries and children's shows on Australian television.
[6] Max Steuer admired Walkabout to Cornwall and he invited Sykes to direct The Committee.
[7] According to Sight and Sound the film "had a fairly successful if controversial art house career" and while being "top heavy with rather pretentious theatrical dialogue... contained good sequences and was put together with some flair.
He did two comedies for EMI, The House in Nightmare Park with Frankie Howerd, and Steptoe and Son Ride Again.
He did The Lost Secret for the BBC and The Defectors for Video Arts[11] In the 1990s he taught scriptwriting at Winchester University while also directing for Danish television.